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Most Americans believe that it’s a “problem” that Republicans are transphobic.
A new YouGov poll asked Americans whether they thought that certain issues were a “problem” for either party. 44% said that transphobia was “a major problem” among Republicans, and another 24% said they thought it was “a minor problem.” Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.
Transphobia was the second most likely issue to be labeled a problem by respondents, after “hostility toward immigrants.” “Tolerance of political violence,” “conspiracy thinking,” “white supremacy,” “homophobia,” and “fascism” followed closely behind.
Oddly, 40% of respondents said that “transgender ideology” was “a major problem” for Republicans, and another 20% said it was “a minor problem.” 41% said that they didn’t think it was a problem at all for Republicans.
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I felt one huge let down when a parent told me that they voted for Trump because of trans athletes in school sports.
That was when I knew that they had another person in their life other than my other parent. They are still married. And this outside person is influencing one of them. I had suspected it, but now I see the influence this person has over my parent is scary.
It’s all they talk about. Truly is transgender for everyone’s.
Well, “Americans” are right about that.
Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.
Nearly every conversation about trans seems to be something initiated by the crazy, unhinged out of touch right wing. Same thing when it comes to things like furries and supposed litter boxes in schools…
It seems they moved on to feverishly thinking about trans nearly 24/7 now that gay marriage is no longer as politically divisive as it once appeared…they keep on trying to cast everyone else as being weird with dumb phrases like “what is a woman? can you define what a woman even is?” and other such tripe, trying to paint Democrats as being out of touch.
Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.
I seem to recall a bunch of conservative Democrats insisting Transgender voters cost the party the 2024 election.
They fear what they don’t understand.
I have a trans younger sister and one of my brothers is dating a trans woman. My dad is pretty MAGA and I have to hear about my sister “deciding they were trans” after going to therapy at every family get together. Yes, they are definitely way too obsessed.
Ask him when he decided to be cis/straight.
just curious, what’s that going to do?
Puts him on the defensive about his own life. Seems rude but could be worse.
Rightists need vulnerable minority groups to demonize to keep their base together. They are united only by fear and hate, so fabricating a common enemy out of a weak group of victims is the only way they can gain or hold power.
and others. get your own concerns and lives you sad, weird, boring fuckers. and by god, the dumbest mother fuckers who can believe in magic sky men and trickle down economics shouldn’t have their greasy fingers anywhere near the controls of the ship I’m on
They have Trans Derangement Syndrome. Most of them have never actually interacted with a trans person in their lives, but they’re fucking obsessed.
My aunt has a weird obsession with trans people. She told me in graphic detail how the surgeries work, apparently trying to argue it’s gross and therefore morally wrong (even though all surgeries are gross) and I was just like “why do you know this?” Why did she go out of her way to research something she’s so disgusted by? I don’t even remember the details she told me.
And she is also distraught by the hypothetical idea of having to call her mother her father or call her father her mother. Neither of her parents have ever expressed any transgender tendencies and they never will because they’re long dead now.
They spend a lot of time thinking about transexuals having sex. Perhaps ashamed of their own predilections I suspect. Just like we have seen time and again with these preachers railing against gay people the most, come to find out many rail the gays in more ways than one.
There just aren’t that many trans people compared to how often conservatives make a big issue of them. And the number of times that a trans person has actually caused a tangible problem for other people in a way that is related to their being trans is even more rare. Not that it doesn’t happen, but it might as well be a unicorn.
That’s an easy way to tell for sure that they are using the issue as a distraction.
Straight, cis men cause a hell of a lot more problems statistically than any trans person, yet we don’t see Republicans calling for them to be banned.
That’s a very good point.
I mean, true, but, going by pornhub numbers from Republican areas… oh they see trans people all the time.
Not distraction, scapegoat. Fascism needs an “others” demographic to blame for citizens’ hardships, and they have realized that it’s more effective to have multiple of them so voters can cherry-pick whichever they feel more strongly about.
It’s not really a distraction, IMO. The enforcement of gender norms is kind of essential for conservative ideology. The idea that someone can transgress or opt-out from the enforcement of their rules is anathema to them.
If people assigned female at birth can become male and vice-versa, then all of the biological essentialism they believe in, that women are one way and men another due to their inherent characteristics, is proven false. It’s an important part of their ideology and without it a lot of other enforced heirarchies they care about inherently fall apart.
Sadly, a lot of the left is really naive to just how fucking evil these kinds of people are.
They worked hard to craft the narrative around trans people as the new sub-human scourge trying to destroy our nation etc. It was deliberate from the start, they picked a group that has low representation and low population, whom average people don’t understand or connect with.
You don’t fix this kind of thing with education, outreach and lecturing. You fix this with regime change. All of the transphobic chuds and all of the terfs have the attention-spans and emotional consistency of toddlers, that’s why they were vulnerable to the narrative to begin with. If we had new leadership who, no matter what ideology they represented, said “trans people ain’t a big deal and we ain’t going after them” you would see vast waves of people lose interest and start looking for the next target to hate and scapegoat.
I dunno. Personally, I think both can be true. Project 2025, for example, was published in 2023 and went largely under the radar for months, likely making the rounds at CPAC. It wasn’t until discovered a year later that the GOP was forced to go into damage control. It’s obvious no one was supposed to know about it. So, yeah, all that transphobic hate they spew is no doubt genuine but it’s probably hiding something more sinister as well.
The sinister part is control. They discovered long ago that giving people something to hate can bind them. The people pushing this agenda could give a shit either way about the people they designate as the enemy. It’s why they so easily jump from one to the next. As soon as the current boogeyman isn’t boosting their numbers enough, move on to the next boogeyman. They did this for years while slowly degrading education until people were too stupid they were being handled. It’s structured evil controlling the cultivated stupid.
Thank you for saying this. I’ve come to the same conclusion and try to spread the word here and elsewhere.
I’ve known three trans people in my lifetime. All FTM. All were wonderful men.
Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.
I’m getting so sick of seeing that same number in every “Do you hate thy neighbor?”-type of survey
That’s my go to response with anyone saying “you aren’t conservative/republican/christian/religious” to me. No, sorry, I have better things to do than hate people I don’t know.
Gotta hate someone if you’re a conservative.
Black people. Hispanic people. Immigrants in general (unless they’re white). Gays. Trans. Furries. Doesn’t matter. And they’ll cycle through them too. Come back around a few years later to one they haven’t focused on in a while.
Because they lead pathetic lives that aren’t interesting enough, so they have to force themselves on other’s lives.
Truly, they are wastes of oxygen.
Conservative mindset is that everything is in a hierarchy, the hierarchy is a Good and Natural thing to exist, and therefore even if you’re not at the top, there Must be someone beneath you. And then trying to make their lives better puts the wrong people in the hierarchy, so they must be stopped. It’s miserably sad I assume.
You don’t need to assume. It’s pretty obvious how pathetic it is even from the outside.
To be fair they are.
Its one of the smallest group of people they can demonize. They wouldn’t want a large group that might demonize them. They’ve got that now too but it wasn’t what they wanted.
Republicans: Groceries are too high! Let’s blame it on the trans!
Theyre hardcore xenophobes. If it looks different , its bad
